Sample handling and laboratory standardization: developing standard operating procedures -- Components of the complete blood count -- Hematology : the erythrocytes, white blood cells, and immune system -- Abnormalities in the red and white blood cell populations -- Renal physiology and anatomy, clinical diagnostics, and disease -- Liver physiology and anatomy, clinical diagnostics, and disease -- Pancreatic and gastrointestinal physiology and anatomy, clinical diagnostics, and disease -- Electrolyte physiology, function, and derangement -- Components of the urinalysis -- Evaluating the urinalysis with disease conditions -- Adrenal function and testing -- Blood gas -- Coagulation -- Emergency diagnostics : a discussion of shock and clinical diagnostics -- Obtaining samples from different body systems and evaluating cytology